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

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.

That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.