Everyone honors the wise.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.