If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

Education begins at the level of the learner.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.