The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.