Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

Adventure is worthwhile.

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it

Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.