Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.