Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.