Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.