Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.