A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

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

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.