Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.