...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.