Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Education is the best provision for old age.

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.

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

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

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

Bad men are full of repentance.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

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.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

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