"Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with perfect virtue."

"The female is also more given to despair and more hopeless, and more apt to be desperate."

"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both the other classes."

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

"As regards the sexes, the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject."