Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

One has no friend who has many friends.

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.