For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Nothing is what rocks dream about

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.