We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

You are what you do repeatedly.