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 physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.

Either a beast or a god.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.