There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous..

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be..

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature..

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men..

The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that hone….

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war.

If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, s….

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy..

We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with tho….

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and i….

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembl….

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man ….