And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.