Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.