He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .

The soul is the form of the body

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 citizens.

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

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.