No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.

Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.