"Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice."

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

"As regards the sexes, the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject."

"The citizen in an absolute sense is not defined by any other thing so much as by his participation in the judicial and executive power."

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."