One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambit….

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead..

Adventure is worthwhile..

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of….

You should never think without an image..

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses..

No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature..

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . ..

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again..

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government..

Hence intellect[ual perception] is both a beginning and an end, for the demonstrations arise from these, and concern them. As a result, one ought to ….

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied..

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning..

There must be in prudence also some master virtue..

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute..

Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals ….

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do..

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst..

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation..