For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.