In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

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 commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.