That which is excellent endures.

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Evils draw men together.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.