Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

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.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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

The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.