Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

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

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

Either a beast or a god.