For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.