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

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.