They who are to be judges must also be performers.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself.

Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.