To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.