We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.
The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.
Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.