Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.