Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.