That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23