Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

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.

Nothing is what rocks dream about

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.