Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Men create the gods after their own images.

Authority is no source for Truth.

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.