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.

The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure

It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.