Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.