To Know What Virtue Is Is Not

Men Create The Gods After Their Own Images.

Every Realm Of Nature Is Marvelous.

The Aim Of Art Is To Represent Not The Outward Appearance Of Things, But Their Inward Significance.

The Fool Tells Me His Reason; The Wise Man Persuades Me With My Own.

The Life Of Theoretical Philosophy Is The Best And Happiest A Man Can Lead. Few Men Are Capable Of It And Then Only Intermittently. For The Rest There Is A Second-best Way Of Life, That Of Moral Virtue And Practical Wisdom.