The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.