All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.