Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.