Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.

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.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

To please the many is to displease the wise.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.