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

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.

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..

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents..

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles..

Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be ….

Talent is culture with insolence..

But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it m….

In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more importan….

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it..

There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sen….

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are goo….

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good..

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the peo….

One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chanc….

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage..

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it..