Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

Excellent things are rare.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.