The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.