Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.