Wine fills the heart with courage.
Music is to the mind as air is to the body.
The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.
The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.