The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.