The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.