Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this.

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.