The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.