The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
Those who act receive the prizes.
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.