This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.