| Quotes |
Topic |
| Age | The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato. |
| Body | We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. |
| Boys | Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. |
| Burden | He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden. |
| Cities | Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city. |
| Science | Science is nothing but perception. |
| Education | Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child. |
| Excess | Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. |
| Faith | We are twice armed if we fight with faith. |
| Fools | Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. |
| Government | The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men. |
| Harmony | Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity. |
| Influence | By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun. |
| Misfortune | Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. |
| Names | They certainly give very strange names to diseases. |
| Poetry | Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. |
| Politics | One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. |
| Government | Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. |
| Punishment | It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine. |
| Sculpture | The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried. |
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