The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet..

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impres….

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye..

A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth..

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all..

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust..

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others..

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely..

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence..

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by j….

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot..

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but….

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of gove….

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man..

Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue..

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office..

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citi….

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed..

Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, eit….

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them..