The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to ….

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic..

We must become just be doing just acts..

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely..

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake..

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity..

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get..

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others..

A gentleman is not disturbed by anything.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it..

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms..

The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more i….

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,….

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the s….

Man by nature wants to know..

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal..

The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which ….

It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly….

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few..

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within ….