Aristotle

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. ”

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. ”

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ”

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. ”

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. ”

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ”

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. ”

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors. ”

Law is mind without reason. ”

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. ”