Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

There is honor in being a dog.

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

The first principle of all action is leisure.