The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

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

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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, . .