One man cannot practice many arts with success.

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.