He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating. Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods. First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. Nothing is to be preferred before justice. The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.