Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

He who hath many friends hath none.