He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

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.

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.