Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.