The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula.

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

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