It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.