The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
Man's greatest victory is over oneself.
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.