The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

He who hath many friends hath none.

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

All things are full of gods.