Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

Happiness is a sort of action.

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

Character is determined by choice, not opinion.