The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness…This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.