He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.