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.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Beauty is a gift of God.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

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

He who hath many friends hath none.

Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.