We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

All communication must lead to change

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.