Memory is the scribe of the soul.

For good is simple, evil manifold.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

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.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.