He who hath many friends hath none.

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

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.

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.