Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.