Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it