For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common….

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, s….

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many..

Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ough….

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do..

The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried ….

When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung….

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man..

Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasm….

Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sen….

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized..

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable..

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things..

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virt….

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement..

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials,….

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods..

Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certai….

No science ever defends its first principles..

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil..

As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God..