The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

Well begun is half done.

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.