A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.
Happiness depends on ourselves.
One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.