The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold