Geometry draws the soul towards truth.
Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.
When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.
The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.