Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.