The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.