Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

There is honor in being a dog.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.