To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
You can't do good if you don't feel good.