The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.