Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.