Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.