I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.