There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

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

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.