The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.