A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.