Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

When the looms spin by themselves, we'll have no need for slaves.

A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

There is always something new coming out of Africa.