Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.