The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.