A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

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

Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.