There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?