The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.
AristotleA friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
AristotleFor suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dรฆdalus or the tripods of Hephรฆstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.
Aristotle