To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.