Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

All knowledge is but remembrance.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.