From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

[The Cretans have] more wit than words.

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?