A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.