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.

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

Perception starts with the eye.

The soul is the form of the body

For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

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