Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.

Music directly represents the passion of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

There are three lines of life which stand out prominently to view: the life of pleasure, the political life, and the life of reflection.