Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.
Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
You should never think without an image.
A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.