The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.