The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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

He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.