An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.