The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.