Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

Change in all things is sweet.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

To love someone is to identify with them.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.