Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

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.

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.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.