The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.