Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Love well, be loved and do something of value.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.