Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.