Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

A man is the origin of his action.

But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.