If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.