All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.

The beginning is half of the whole.