Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.