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

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.