The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
All men by nature desire to know.
