Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
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.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.