Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.
. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.