People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
All men are alike when asleep.
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
All art is concerned with coming into being.
The soul is the form of the body