He Who Hath Many Friends Hath None.

A Flatterer Is A Friend Who Is Your Inferior, Or Pretends To Be So.

The Best Things Are Placed Between Extremes.

If The Art Of Ship-building Were In The Wood, Ships Would Exist By Nature.

And, Speaking Generally, Passion Seems Not To Be Amenable To Reason, But Only To Force.

Now What Is Just And Right Is To Be Interpreted In The Sense Of 'what Is Equal'; And That Which Is Right In The Sense Of Being Equal Is To Be Considered With Reference To The Advantage Of The State, And The Common Good Of The Citizens. And A Citizen Is One Who Shares In Governing And Being Governed. He Differs Under Different Forms Of Government, But In The Best State He Is One Who Is Able And Willing To Be Governed And To Govern With A View To The Life Of Virtue.