Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
The purpose of art is to give form to the secret essence of things, not to merely copy their appearance.
Our character is the result of our conduct.
The dialecticians and the sophists, in their disquisitions, clothe themselves in the appearance of philosophers.
The virtue is a voluntary acquired disposition, which consists of a middle term between two bad extremes, one by excess and the other by defect.
A definition is a phrase that signifies the essence of a thing.
If citizens practiced friendship among themselves, they would not need justice.
Tyrants surround themselves with wicked men because they like to be flattered, and no man of elevated spirit will flatter them.