It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

In justice is all virtues found in sum.

For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.