[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.