And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

Do thine own work, and know thyself.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.