Perception starts with the eye.

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

Friendship also seems to be the bond that hold communities together.

Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.