If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.