While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it.
Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man’s proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.
Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.
For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.
Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.
Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.
The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.
Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.
The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.
A man’s happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.
For good is simple, evil manifold.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god...
The first principle of all action is leisure.
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.