A Constitution Is The Arrangement Of Magistracies

He Who Sees Things Grow From The Beginning Will Have The Best View Of Them.

Youth Should Stay Away From All Evil, Especially Things That Produce Wickedness And Ill-will.

It Is Clear, Then, That The Earth Must Be At The Centre And Immovable, Not Only For The Reasons Already Given, But Also Because Heavy Bodies Forcibly Thrown Quite Straight Upward Return To The Point From Which They Started, Even If They Are Thrown To An Infinite Distance. From These Considerations Then It Is Clear That The Earth Does Not Move And Does Not Lie Elsewhere Than At The Centre.

A Good Style Must Have An Air Of Novelty, At The Same Time Concealing Its Art.

Hence Both Women And Children Must Be Educated With An Eye To The Constitution, If Indeed It Makes Any Difference To The Virtue Of A City-state That Its Children Be Virtuous, And Its Women Too. And It Must Make A Difference, Since Half The Free Population Are Women, And From Children Come Those Who Participate In The Constitution.