The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Man is by nature a political animal.

And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.