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.

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.