The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.