Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

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

A human being is a naturally political [animal].