Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant.