Man is by nature a political animal.

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.