If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.