We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Wit is educated insolence.