Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.