We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Excellent things are rare.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

We become what we contemplate.

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.