Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.