In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health

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.

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.