The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.