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.

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

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.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.