There is always something new coming out of Africa.
It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
The law is reason unaffected by desire.
Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.