When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

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

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.