Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

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

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us