We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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.

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice.

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.