Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.

All art is concerned with coming into being.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.