Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?