So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality must survey.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

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.

Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.