Prayers And Sacrifices Are Of No Avail.

Just As A Royal Rule, If Not A Mere Name, Must Exist By Virtue Of Some Great Personal Superiority In The King, So Tyranny, Which Is The Worst Of Governments, Is Necessarily The Farthest Removed From A Well-constituted Form; Oligarchy Is Little Better, For It Is A Long Way From Aristocracy, And Democracy Is The Most Tolerable Of The Three.

In Inventing A Model We May Assume What We Wish, But Should Avoid Impossibilities.

No One Will Dare Maintain That It Is Better To Do Injustice Than To Bear It.

When The Storytelling Goes Bad In A Society, The Result Is Decadence.

To The Size Of The State There Is A Limit, As There Is To Plants, Animals And Implements, For None Of These Retain Their Facility When They Are Too Large.