...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.