All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.