I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.