All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.