The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.