Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.