Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

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

Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.