He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.
Nature operates in the shortest way possible.
It is likely that unlikely things should happen
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.