Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

Change in all things is sweet.

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.