Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Everyone honors the wise.
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.