It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

All soul is immortal. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. But it is also source and first principle of movement for the other things which move.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.