"Not I, but the city teaches...." - Quote by Socrates

“Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing.”

“True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.”

“Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.”

“No brain, no gain. Stay in school.”

“No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most of our schools and colleges today pay little attention to history. And many of our current policies repeat mistakes that were made, time and again, in the past with disastrous results.”

“Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.”

“In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.”

“We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges”

“There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.”