"Human beings are by nature political animals."

"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."

"One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought."

"For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

"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."

"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."

"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

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

"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."

"Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age."

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

"Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims."

"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."

"It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions."

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."

"It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen."

"We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us."

"When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master."

"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents, there should be nothing of the sort in it."

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."

"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

"Man is by nature a civic animal."

"Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions."

"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."

"Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy."

"The secret to humor is surprise."

"Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship."

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."

"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."

"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."

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."

"Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit."

"He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader."

"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

"Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity."

"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note."

"We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him."

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society."

"What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do."

"Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."

"The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18."

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."