Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.