For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.
We become brave by doing brave acts.
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
Evil brings men together.
The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.
In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.