Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises authority over the rest. And the smallest class is the one which naturally possesses that form of knowledge which alone of all others deserves the title of wisdom.