In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

Beauty is a gift of God.

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.