The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

Law is mind without reason.