So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .