A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

The first principle of all action is leisure.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.