Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Piety requires us to honour truth above our friends.

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.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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.

Change in all things is sweet.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard t`o their form but with regard to their mode of life.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.