No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

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.