When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.