He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Beauty is the gift of God

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.