The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

Everyone honors the wise.

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .