The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

To love someone is to identify with them.

A human being is a naturally political [animal].

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.