The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity..

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip..

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowled….

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life.

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, o….

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possi….

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things..

Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is n….

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement..

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

There is always something new coming out of Africa..

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because h….

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know..

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions..

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge..

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good..

A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return..

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so..

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee….

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled..

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims..