The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

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

Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.