It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

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.

Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?