When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

When he was asked ‘What is a friend?’ he said ‘One soul inhabiting two bodies.’

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

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.