Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

Life should be lived as play.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.