Art is the proper task of life.
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.