If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.