Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.