What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Beauty is a gift of God.