In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

Either a beast or a god.