 The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. |
| Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. |
| The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal. |
| Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. |
| For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. |
| Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. |
| Most people would rather give than get affection. |
| Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. |
| The whole is more than the sum of its parts. |
| Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. |
| Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. |
| Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. |
| He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. |
| A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. |
| It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. |
| Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Topics: Friendship |
| The end of labor is to gain leisure. |
| Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. |
| Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. |
| Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. |
