No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey hither.