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

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

Either is both, and Both is neither.