People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.