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.

These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

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

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.