Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.

A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.