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.

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.