We become just by the practice of just actions.

Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.