We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.