There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.
Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.