In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

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

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

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