We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself.

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.