In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.