There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.
We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.