"They think that you bear old age more easily not because of the way you live but because youβre wealthy, for the wealthy, they say, have many consolations."
"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
"I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools."
"Have you not perceived that imitations, whether of bodily gestures, tones of voice, or modes of thought, if they be persevered in from an early age, are apt to grow into habits and a second nature?"
"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."
"If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest."
"Must not all things at last be swallowed up in Death?"
"No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them."
"Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding."
"By harming a horse, you decrease his excellence. Thus, by harming a person, you decrease their excellence."
