The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

Happiness is self-connectedness.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).

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.

It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.