Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.