The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.

We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.