The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.
Every realm of nature is marvelous.
[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.
Art takes nature as its model.
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.