Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.
In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.