[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
Wit is educated insolence.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
We become just by the practice of just actions.