We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.