One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
AristotleWe should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.
AristotleOne may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.
AristotleBut 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.
Aristotle