Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.