“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”

“We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.”

“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

“Inequality is everywhere at the bottom of faction, for in general faction arises from men's striving for what is equal.”

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”