Our actions determine our dispositions.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents