Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Philosophy begins in wonder.