The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

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.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.