The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?

The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.