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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.