There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

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

Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.