Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against ….

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs..

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal..

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five..

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essent….

A friend to all is a friend to none..

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man..

Through discipline comes freedom..

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud..

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of wh….

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energe….

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom..

The law is reason, free from passion..

The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the pa….

Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, b….

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 ….

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

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

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..

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,….