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.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.