The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the trut….

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts..

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits.

The best things are placed between extremes..

These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deli….

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end..

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak w….

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from b….

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature..

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work..

Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn..

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wa….

We work to earn our leisure..

In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we m….

A friend is another I..

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal..

A friend to all is a friend to none..

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud..

The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to ….

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely..