Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

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.

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

Character is revealed through action.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.