It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
What we expect, that we find.
The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.
For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not