Men create the gods after their own images.

The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.