A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Custom is almost a second nature.

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.

Character is simply habit long continued.