Only the silent hear and those who do not remain silent do not hear.

Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state of being, and not in the patent significance of immediate sensual appeal.

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

...the intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is unable to give or take a straight look in the eye.

[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]

To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.