Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing