Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.

If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.

We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.