Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

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.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.