It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

Philosophy begins with wonder.

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.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.