It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

Man by nature wants to know.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.