All men by nature desire knowledge.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.