Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue.

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

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.

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.