The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. The reason for this lies in the failure properly to define liberty. For there are two marks by which democracy is thought to be defined: "sovereignty of the majority" and "liberty." "Just" is equated with what is equal, and the decision of the majority as to what is equal is regarded as sovereign; and liberty is seen in terms of doing what one wants.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.