The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

Beauty is a gift of God.

Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.