...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

We become just by the practice of just actions.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.