To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

Beauty is a gift of God.

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.