Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.