Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

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?

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.