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

"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."

"Wit, he says in the Rhetoric (2, 12), is educated insolence."

"The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of the good life."

"The female is also more given to idleness and more lazy, and more prone to sleep."