A friend is another I.

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.