We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.