Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?