He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.

There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.

[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.