"The constrained performance of bodily labour does, it is true, exert no evil influence on the body; but in the case of the mind, no study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory."
"Hope,' he says, 'cherishes the soul of him who lives justice and holiness, and is the nurse of his age and the companion of his journey; hope which is mightiest to sway the restless soul of man."
"Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes."
"It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason."
"You donβt seem to love money too much. And those who havenβt made their own money are usually like you. But those who have made it for themselves are twice as fond of it as those who havenβt."
"The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable."
"Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony."
"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."
"The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding ones own business, in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people."
"It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light."
