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

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.