The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.