The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires..

The law is reason unaffected by desire..

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trus….

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered..

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine..

Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their ….

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge..

Wonder implies the desire to learn..

The physician heals, Nature makes well..

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done..

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note..

All men desire by nature to know..

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for….

Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example….

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing..

Law is order, and good law is good order..

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art..

The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others..

How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and….

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end..

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing..