When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.