“...men unite against none so readily as against those whom theysee attempting to rule over them.”

“For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.”

“The sweetest of all sounds is praise.”

“For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.”

“A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.”

“Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.”

“All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.”

“I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.”

“The sweetest of all sounds is praise.”

“The sweetest of all sounds is praise.”

“No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.”