May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can learn to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which we have called the good. Hence there may well be an art whose aim would be to effect this very thing.

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

Be as you wish to seem.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.