Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.
No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.
Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.