Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.