We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.