A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
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.
No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.
Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.