And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.
Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.
The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.