I am better off than he is, — for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know. - Plato

... because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible...

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.