To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.