Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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

Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.