The beginning is the most important part of the work.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Necessity... the mother of invention.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Science is nothing but perception.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Philosophy begins in wonder.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
