All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

We must become just be doing just acts.