The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.