A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

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

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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