When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.