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

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

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.