When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

A human being is a naturally political [animal].

Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions [the calculative faculty] there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.