"We become just by performing just action,..." - Quote by Aristotle

“When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.”

“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.”

“In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.”

“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.”

“... justice is mercy's highest self.”

“Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.”

“Things are only impossible until somebody does what another believes can't be done.”

“Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.”

“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.”