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.

The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.