The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

We are what we continually do.

The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.