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.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.