Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

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

All thinking begins with wondering

I know what I do not know.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.