They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.