Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.