For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.