Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
From Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
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