Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than one sense, and provided any one alone of these is found in a thing we say that thing is living. Living, that is, may mean thinking or perception or local movement and rest, or movement in the sense of nutrition, decay and growth. Hence we think of plants also as living, for they are observed to possess in themselves an originative power through which they increase or decrease in all spatial directions.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.