The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
To give a satisfactory decision as to the [...]
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Without friends no [...]
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.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain [...]
A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
A friend is a second self.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Dignity consists not in possessing [...]