By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.