Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

Man by Nature desires to know.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.

For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.