Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.