The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.
I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.
Man is a being in search of meaning.
I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.