It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.