In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

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.

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.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.