If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.