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

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action

We become just by the practice of just actions.

To perceive is to suffer.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately, while, on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of all things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed.