The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

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.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.