Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity..

The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction..

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness..

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice..

God has many names, though He is only one Being..

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in….

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul..

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it..

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, bra….

True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, ….

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness..

If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No in….

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep..

Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The s….

Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education..

Peace is more difficult than war..

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right witho….

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up..

Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is….

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness..