When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.