Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

Greed has no boundaries

Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.