The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.