Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

A human being is a naturally political [animal].

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Happiness is the reward of virtue.