With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

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

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

Happiness is the reward of virtue.