"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

"Some men are born slaves, and others are born to rule."

"The female is also more given to flattery and more obsequious, and more apt to fawn."

"The proper object of the state is the good life."

"It is clear, then, that some men are by nature free, and others slaves, and that for these latter slavery is both expedient and right."