Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

What we expect, that we find.

Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.