"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both the other classes."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"The female is also more given to learning and more docile, and more apt to be taught."

"From the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule."

"Women are defective by nature."