| | He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. |
| | In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. |
| | Character is habitual action. |
| | A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. |
| | Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. |
| | Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. |
| | 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. |
| | Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals revolt that they may be superior. |
| | Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all. |
| | It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. |
| | Nature does nothing uselessly. |
| | The basis of a democratic state is liberty. |
| | Well begun is half done. |
| | It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. |
| | Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. |
| | To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. |
| | We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. |
| | Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. |
| | Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. |
| | It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. |
| | Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. |
| | Happiness depends upon ourselves. |
| | Education is the best provision for old age. |
| | A friend is a second self. |
| | Hope is a waking dream. |
| | The gods too are fond of a joke. |
| | The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. |
| | Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. |
| | Wit is educated insolence. |