Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

Aristotle said: "Evil brings men together."

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.