Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.