Ideas are the source of all things

And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .