Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.