The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.

The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.