Man by nature wants to know.

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.