Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.