It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.