It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.