Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.