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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Bad men are full of repentance.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.