The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.

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

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future