A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?