A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way. By 'more dialectical,' I mean not only that we give real responses, but that we base our responses solely on what the interlocutor admits that he himself knows.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.