A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

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.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.