Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.