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

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.