So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

A person's life persuades better than his word.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution.