When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Imagination is a sort of faint perception.
Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.