God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.