It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Either a beast or a god.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.