"Those who are in a position which places them above toil have stewards who attend to their households while they occupy themselves with philosophy or with politics."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"The slave is wholly lacking the deliberative element; the female has it but it lacks authority; the child has it but it is incomplete."

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

"A state exists for the sake of a good life, and not for the sake of life only."