The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.