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

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usually goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

Nearly allied to justice are the virtues of beneficence, compassion, gratitude, piety, and friendship.