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

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.