The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.
When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.
The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.