We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

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

We work to earn our leisure.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . .

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.