We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.