Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

Everyone honors the wise.

Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.