Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.