Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.