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

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

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

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.