God is truth and light his shadow.
The good is the beautiful.
Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.