We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.

The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.