Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.

Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war