Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

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

No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.