Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.