My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

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

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.