The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest….

A friend of everyone is a friend of no one.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial..

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing..

Friendship is communion..

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love..

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce..

Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal….

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….