Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

Peace is more difficult than war.

Those who act receive the prizes.

Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.