Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice . .