“I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.”

“Death is the best invention of life.”

“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.”

“No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.”

“Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.”

“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.”