The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.
Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .
Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]
The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.