Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

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.

Your happiness depends on you alone.

All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

Nothing is what rocks dream about

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it