It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.