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.

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'