If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city.

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.