The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

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

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.

We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.