Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

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.

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

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.