Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement - in fact, of nervous functions in general, - are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance.

Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy.

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.