Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.