The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

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.

We work to earn our leisure.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.