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.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.