“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well
“If you consider what are called the virtues of mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties