Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.