Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

The best things are placed between extremes.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.