We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.
Nothing is what rocks dream about
Our actions determine our dispositions.