The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.
Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.
To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible.
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.
It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.