Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.