The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

To the sober person adventurous conduct often seems insanity.

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.