Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
Those having torches will pass them on to others.
But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.