Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

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