"It seems to me that many fall into it even against their will, and fancy they are discussing, when they are merely debating, because they cannot distinguish the meanings of a term, in their investigation of any question, but carry on their opposition to what is stated, by attacking the mere words, employing the art of debate, and not that of philosophical discussion."

"Those whose hearts are fixed on reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers."

"There are three arts which are concerned with all things. One which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."

"Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or better than cohesion and unity?"

"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."

"No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."

"No man should bring children into world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."

"Does not every man love that which he deems noble and just and good, and hate the opposite of them? people regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them."

"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand."