Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.