...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lo….

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during ….

Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is ….

And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. ….

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, n….

There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutti….

The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the stat….

These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain….

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All….

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean..

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself..

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases ….

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and f….

For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the shari….

Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be conside….

The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its busine….

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man..

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance….

Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who….

One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have ….

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire..