Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

Some believe it to be just friends wanting, as if to be healthy enough to wish health.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.