Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

A man is the origin of his action.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.