What we expect, that we find.

A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.