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

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.