Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment