I would fain grow old learning many things.

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

Not by force shall the children learn, but through play