Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.