Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it