The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.