It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

The first principle of all action is leisure.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.