A whole is that which has beginning middle and end.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Well begun is half done.

They should rule who are able to rule best.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Evil draws men together.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

One swallow does not make a summer.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

With regard to excellence it is not enough to know but we must try to have and use it.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

Law is mind without reason.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

To perceive is to suffer.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice.

Hope is a waking dream.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

What is a friend A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

We make war that we may live in peace.

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

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet.

Happiness is the highest good being a realization and perfect practice of virtue which some can attain while others have little or none of it.