Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.