In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.