Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

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

The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.