Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.