People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.