The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.