The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.