The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

All men are alike when asleep.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

We must become just be doing just acts.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.