Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.