A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.