Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.