We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

The first principle of all action is leisure.

The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.