"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."

"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence."

"To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world."

"The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more."

"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."

"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."

"It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good."

"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."

"Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking, for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else."

"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."

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends."

"A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end."

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

"Even subjects that are known are known only to a few."

"Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."

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

"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."

"We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts of choice; and these are determined by the end that inspires them."

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

"And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat, and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!"

"Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach."

"Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence."

"Most people would rather give than get affection."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"Shame is an ornament to the young a disgrace to the old."

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

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

"A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold."

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."

"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."

"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

"It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."

"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."

"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."

"It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit."

"All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder-either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity."

"Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

"God has many names though He is only one Being."

"Now to exert oneself and work for the sake of amusement seems silly and utterly childish. But to amuse oneself in order that one may exert oneself, as Anacharsis puts it, seems right; for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously. Relaxation, then, is not an end; for it is taken for the sake of activity."

"For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize."

"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."

"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."

"The gods too are fond of a joke."

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

"Nature does nothing in vain."