It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.