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

The first principle of all action is leisure.

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

Man is by nature a political animal.

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.