Wonder implies the desire to learn.

Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

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.

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

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

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.