Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.
Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.