Your silence gives consent.- Plato
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
