The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.