Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.