A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.