It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

Education begins at the level of the learner.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue