"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"The female is also more given to modesty and more reserved, and more apt to be bashful."

"The female is also more given to eating and drinking, and more gluttonous, and more inclined to drunkenness."

"The proper object of the state is the good life."

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