The end of labor is to gain leisure.
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
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.
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.