Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed.

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

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.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.