Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.

The law is reason, free from passion.