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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.