"Every action has its pleasures and its price."

"The good of the individual is certainly of higher value than the good of the state."

"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 female is also more given to despair and more hopeless, and more apt to be desperate."

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."