95% of everything you do is the result of habit.
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.