Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

Nature does nothing in vain.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.