The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond..

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world..

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul..

These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deli….

Fortune favours the bold..

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend..

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well..

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion..

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind..

Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The….

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own..

For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge;….

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool..

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end..

The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor do….

Every great genius has an admixture of madness..

As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the….

Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing th….

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials..

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or….