We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

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

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.