If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature..

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been de….

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and….

To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of….

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work..

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers..

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their trai….

All art is concerned with coming into being..

Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn..

Youth loves honor and victory more than money..

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law..

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion..

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa..

Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and….

If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, i….

Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship..

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age..

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wa….

We work to earn our leisure..

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition..

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause..