The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

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.

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).