Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.