"Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it."

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

"Because people want more and more possessions, they start wanting more money, and thus honor money more and excellence less. Accordingly, the wealthy become more honored, and the people of excellence less honored. With the majority now money-loving businessmen instead of lovers of victory and honor, the admirable rich men will be put into office, and the poor will be dishonored."

"Excellence must be the health and wellbeing of the soul."

"God is the cause only of good."

"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

"What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable of following if someone else tries to lead them to it, and who can see many moral actions, but not morality itself, and so on? That they only ever entertain beliefs, and do not know any of the things they believe?"

"Yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route."

"Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the fill the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas receives nothing from like.,."

"It is by justice, that we can authenticate a man's value or nullity, the absence of justice, is the absence of what makes him man."