Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.