The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

All communication must lead to change

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.