By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.