Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?