Pleasure is the bait of sin
When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.
Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Philosophy begins in wonder.
For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.