Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

The soul never thinks without a picture.