Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

Beauty is the gift of God

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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

For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.