Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.