Evils draw men together.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.