Our actions determine our dispositions.

One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.