There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

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.

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.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Leisure with dignity.

A wise man does nothing by constraint.