Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.

Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

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

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

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

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.