The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole.
politicsby aristotle
But justice is the bond of men in states, for the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.
The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.
constitution / government / sovereign / state
And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes a family and a state.
For nobility is excellence of race.
A straight nose is the most beautiful, but one that deviates from being straight and tends toward being hooked or snub can nevertheless still be beautiful to look at. Yet if it is tightened still more toward the extreme, the part will first be thrown out of due proportion, and in the end it will cease to look like a nose at all, because it has too much of one and too little of the other of these opposites.
The deficiencies of nature are what art and education seek to fill up.
art / deficiencies / education
Man is a political animal. A man who lives alone is either a Beast or a God.
Not in depraved things, but in those well oriented according to nature, are we to consider what is natural.
The first principle of all action is leisure.