If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

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

The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.