If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

A man can make up his mind quickly when he has only a little to make up.

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.