The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies..

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions..

All things are full of gods..

Teaching is the highest form of understanding..

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (….

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth..

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice..

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had..

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless..

Friends enhance our ability to think and act..

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property..

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love..

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions..

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken..

In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices o….

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved..

At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose.

But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condi….

We become just by the practice of just actions..

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good meta….