Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

It is no easy task to be good.