The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.

The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.