He who hath many friends hath none.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
