Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

One has no friend who has many friends.

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it