Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .
Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.