This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.