The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...