People generally despise where they flatter.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.