Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.