The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy..

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his….

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the v….

Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is app….

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the trut….

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts..

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits.

The best things are placed between extremes..

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

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

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

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak w….

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from b….

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

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….

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work..

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

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..

In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we m….