No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.