Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?

Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.