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

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

We are what we continually do.

You are what you repeatedly do

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.