Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.

Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.