Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

"To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do."

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."