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

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

God forever geometrizes.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.