I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

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.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

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

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?