But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth