Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

...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.

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.