And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
I prefer nothing, unless it is true.
Only the dead will know the end of the war.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.