Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy.