The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

A gentleman is not disturbed by anything