The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

You are what you do repeatedly.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.