Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)