...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

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.

Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.