Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.