States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp
The prisoner grows to love his chains.
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.