Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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.

Evil draws men together.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.