As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

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

The gods too are fond of a joke.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.