Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

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

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.