The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.