Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

The law is reason, free from passion.

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.