For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation. (Location 3870)
For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many. The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men’s characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. (Location 3884)
wealth is well known to be a great comforter. (Location 3889)
the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, (Location 3900)
“Hope,” he says, “cherishes the soul of him who lives in justice and holiness, and is the nurse of his age and the companion of his journey;—hope which is mightiest to sway the restless soul of man.” (Location 3910)
justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him, and this he termed a debt. (Location 3937)
then justice is the art which gives good to friends and evil to enemies. (Location 3942)
I proclaim that justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger. (Location 4062)
all states there is the same principle of justice, which is the interest of the government; and as the government must be supposed to have power, the only reasonable conclusion is, that everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger. (Location 4073)
