No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

What we expect, that we find.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.