The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

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

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.