Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Philosophy can make people sick.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to pay attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of experienced and older people, or of the prudent, no less than to demonstrations, for, because the have an experienced eye, they see correctly.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.