The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.