We become just by the practice of just actions.

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.