Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them.
To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war