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

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.