Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

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

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

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.