Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.