Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.