...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.