The greatest victory is over self.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.