One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.