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

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.