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" Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. "

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

" A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. "

" You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. "

" No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. "

" If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. "

" Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. "

" The energy of the mind is the essence of life. "

" Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. "

" The gods too are fond of a joke. "

" 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. "

" The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. "

" Well begun is half done. "

" Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition. "

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

" Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. "

" I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. "

" Bad men are full of repentance. "

" No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. "

" It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. "

" We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. "

" It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. "

" A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. "

" He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature. "

" To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. "

" It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. "

" Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. "