We are what we continually do.
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Art takes nature as its model.
For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.