If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

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

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

Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.