Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.
Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.
The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.