Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.