And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.