Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

You are what you repeatedly do

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.