In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

Men become richer not only by increasing their existing wealth but also by decreasing their expenditure.

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.