Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.
God is truth and light his shadow.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them