We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life