"It is clear that the best state is that in which the middle class is in control, and that those states are likely to be well-administered, in which the middle class is large, and stronger than both th…"

"Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everyb…"

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

"The slave is wholly lacking the deliberative element; the female has it but it lacks authority; the child has it but it is incomplete."

"The female is also more given to eating and drinking, and more gluttonous, and more inclined to drunkenness."