We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.