Happiness Comes From Theperfect Practice Of Virtue.

A Friend Of Everyone Is A Friend Of No One

The Happy Man . . . Will Be Always Or At Least Most Often Employed In Doing And Contemplating The Things That Are In Conformity With Virtue. And He Will Bear Changes Of Fortunes Most Nobly, And With Perfect Propriety In Every Way.

... There Must Then Be A Principle Of Such A Kind That Its Substance Is Activity.

Plato Is Dear To Me, But Dearer Still Is Truth.

The True Forms Of Government, Therefore, Are Those In Which The One, Or The Few, Or The Many, Govern With A View To The Common Interest; But Governments Which Rule With A View To The Private Interest, Whether Of The One Or Of The Few, Or Of The Many, Are Perversions. For The Members Of A State, If They Are Truly Citizens, Ought To Participate In Its Advantages.