If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

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