And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.