Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

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When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master.

For liberality resides not in the multitude of the gifts but in the state of character of the giver.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

A man may possess the disposition without its producing any good result.

For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Now if you have proofs to bring forward, bring them forward, and your moral discourse as well; if you have no enthymemes, then fall back upon moral discourse: after all, it is more fitting for a good man to display himself as an honest fellow than as a subtle reasoner.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

For if Being is just one, and one in the way mentioned, there is a principle no longer, since a principle must be the principle of some thing or things.