Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

A friend is simply one soul in two bodies.