It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed.