Art takes nature as its model.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

A human being is a naturally political [animal].

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.