Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Education is of far greater importance than heredity in forming character.