The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

We all carry fault within.

While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.