It is likely that unlikely things should happen

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.