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….

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute..

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best..

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this b….

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse..

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is t….

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else..

We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful..

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication..

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor..

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force..

People generally despise where they flatter..

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace..

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man..

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function..

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed..

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governme….