Friendship is communion.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

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

But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.

And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.