The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.

The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.