Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.
Either a beast or a god.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.