Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.

The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.