"For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule."

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."

"The state is by nature clearly prior to the family and to the individual, since the whole is of necessity prior to the part."

"The best form of government is a polity, a mixture of oligarchy and democracy."

"The slave has no deliberative faculty at all; the woman has, but it is without authority, and the child has, but it is immature."