Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.