To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.