Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.

When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.

If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.