Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.